Hi, In the last couple of lmtx uploads \startTEXpage should work a bit better. These uploads also introduced a new option for alignments, which can be checked in: \def\DemoA#1{\vbox{\red \hsize#1\input tufte }} \def\DemoB#1{\vbox{\green \setupalign[always]\hsize#1\input tufte }} \def\DemoC#1{\startTEXpage[offset=10pt]\DemoA{#1pt}\blank\DemoB{#1pt}\blank#1pt\stopTEXpage} \starttext \dostepwiserecurse{300}{600}{10}{ \startTEXpage[offset=10pt] \startoverlay {\DemoA{#1pt}} {\DemoB{#1pt}} \stopoverlay \blank \the\dimexpr#1pt\relax \stopTEXpage } \DemoC{370} \DemoC{390} \DemoC{490} \DemoC{540} \DemoC{580} \stoptext I leave it to users to determine if the few cases where the results differ are better or worse but one can for instance use it to influence (as side effect) the last line. In general, tweaking the machinery can give different results and i guess that hardly any user can make consistent claims about what is better. It all depends on what one deals with. (The keyword is suboptimal, it kind of tells what happens but on the other obscurew what really goes on: always forcing a first hyphenation pass when breaking lines.) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------